1

getting started with

DATA SCIENCE

at your organization © 2014 Daniel Dunn

RIS

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reality check

Legacy Executives

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Alli

es

/ V

isio

n

lots of data

=Marketing!

open-+

minded execs

Permission

≠Sponsorship

+ lack of quantsformula:

4

creating infra-

structure

Long-Term:•Mastered data• Governed data•Marts/BI tools• Parallel• Productionalization

Near-Term:• Change management plan• Data sandbox• 64-bit PC; mucho RAM• SQL• R / Rstudio• GitHub• Task Scheduler

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>

building your team

T w i n• business

intuition to identify problem

• identify ideal data set

• get data

• explore dataset

• build model

• validate model

• interpret results

• create deck

• present findings

3rd largest economy

world’s

• Citation ≠ Validation

• Data Brief = King

• Reproducibility is a must for trust

• Readiness assessment

• Research pipeline

• No memorization

is the

TeamPrinciple

s

world’sis the

• Whatever internal advocates request

• Slam dunk that CFO will see

• Self-funding

Finding Projects

No Win Situation

No Credit

High Stakes

Sweet Spot

Imp

act

of

Scre

win

g

Up

Business Leader Enthusiasm

FIFO &

The Trojan Horse

…for humility in analysis…Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable. -Paul Valery

…for setbacks…It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress. -Lost

…for perspective…You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. -Jim Rohn

some musings…

any questions?Sources: http://xkcd.com/552/ ; duarte.com/book/slideology